When I Die (If I Live That Long) I’d Like To Be Buried Under This Gravel

Edward Abbey, author and critic of everything, is one of CS's absolute favorite things in the cosmic empire and we were happy to see that a little scene from Voice In The Wilderness made its way onto the Internets.VITW is an Abbey documentary that was made a few years back that includes a lot of bad PBS-style moments and a few great ones. This segment has one of the latter where Abbey takes us back to his Desert Solitaire days and carelessly expresses where he wants to be buried.
In reality, Outside Magazine tells us:

The last time Ed smiled was when I told him where he was going to be buried," says Doug Peacock, an environmental crusader in Edward Abbey's inner circle. On March 14th, 1989, the day Abbey died from esophageal bleeding at 62, Peacock, along with his friend Jack Loeffler, his father-in-law Tom Cartwright, and his brother-in-law Steve Prescott, wrapped Abbey's body in his blue sleeping bag, packed it with dry ice, and loaded Cactus Ed into Loeffler's Chevy pickup. After stopping at a liquor store in Tucson for five cases of beer, and some whiskey to pour on the grave, they drove off into the desert. The men searched for the right spot the entire next day and finally turned down a long rutted road, drove to the end, and began digging.

One Response to When I Die (If I Live That Long) I’d Like To Be Buried Under This Gravel

edward abbey is a hero of mine, along with jacques yves cousteau and most other men whose hearts were intertwined with the earth or the sea and whose male comraderie and sense of solitude nearly breaks mine. this place of yours is the best thing since borntobenervous.